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This passage is from the collection of the servant songs of the prophet Isaiah. There are four. We could identify the servant as the Second Adam who, unlike his counterpart the First Adam, did open his ear to hear and his tongue to speak a word to the weary.
The suffering servant can be called the Second Adam because as Isaiah used the idea of a suffering servant, at times he meant the people and, at times, a righteous individual. From our point of view, we think of the servant as the Lord Jesus himself.
Jesus is the Second Adam, the One in whose image and likeness Adam, Eve, and the human race was made. Jesus is the Word of God, made flesh ad dwelling among us. Jesus it is who has the well-trained tongue to speak God’s Word to the weary. Jesus opens our ears that we may hear. Like Jesus we set our faces like flint, knowing that we shall not be put to shame.
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